DWF Labs says tokenized equities reached $3.8 billion in early October, up 483% since January, as weekly DEX trading rose 55-fold to $2.54 billion. Usage grew faster than value, though only about 8% of the market is deployed in DeFi.
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G7 finance ministers and central bank governors approved tabletop exercises simulating AI-driven cyberattacks, Japan's Satsuki Katayama said in Bangkok. No start date or participant list has been published, so any test of banks is still undated.
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South Korea's 2026 general government debt is 46.1% of GDP in the IMF's October Fiscal Monitor, 8.3 points below April, the budget ministry said. By our estimate faster growth explains only about 0.4 points of that, so most of the cut depends on revenue and other inputs.
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South Korea and Japan extended their dollar-based $10 billion swap line by three years to November 2029, at one-seventh of the $70 billion it reached in 2011. At that size the line covers a fraction of what it once did, so its value rests on the signal it sends.
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Warsh calls AI spending a demand shock as markets price another Fed rise in December
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh says AI spending is hitting demand before supply, and the Fed and ECB both raised rates in September. Central bankers at the Bangkok IMF meetings tie the boom to a higher cost of money and to tighter budgets for governments that borrowed when rates hovered near zero.
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Washington tells the IMF to weigh upside shocks after a 3.1% forecast that warns of an AI bust
The IMF's 3.1% global growth forecast for 2026 met a US Treasury pushback in Bangkok over how the Fund weighs risks. Both sides treat AI as the growth engine, so investors have to price the disagreement themselves.
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IMF and World Bank released the Bangkok Blueprint against cyber-enabled fraud on Wednesday. It is not formal policy guidance from either institution. Thai Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas said such fraud costs the world economy around $1 trillion a year.
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John Healey is poised to raise bank taxes in his 28 October budget, the Guardian understands, with one option worth upwards of £2bn a year. The proceeds would help cover higher borrowing costs from the Middle East war, and the banks have already warned in writing that they could move staff and business abroad.
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BOJ leans toward an October hold with its 1.25% rate 0.75 points under inflation
Many Bank of Japan officials prefer to hold at 1.25% on October 29-30, sources told Reuters, according to CNA. Against inflation near 2%, that leaves real borrowing costs about 0.75 points below zero.
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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said he will spend the next 100 days on supervision, regulation and payments processing after months absorbed by monetary policy. It lands days before the Fed's Oct. 27-28 meeting, the first of the rate decisions that will compete for his time.
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South Korea's won closed at 1,331.4 per dollar, its strongest since Oct. 2, 2024, after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh gave no signal on October's meeting. The 13.2-won gain came a day after KOSPI fell more than 7%, so how long it holds depends on foreign money.
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Moynihan weighs a 24-year-high Treasury yield against a 226-year average of about 5%
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan says a 226-year average of about 5% puts the 10-year Treasury yield of 5.36% in perspective. He pairs it with strong consumer spending, and his economists forecast three more Fed rate increases.
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Malaysia's 2026 forecasts imply a slower second half after an AI-led 6.0% quarter
Malaysia's GDP grew 6.0% in the second quarter, up from 4.6%, as electrical and electronics net exports rose 168.5%, Crypto Briefing reported. Full-year forecasts of 5.1% (World Bank) and 5.2% (IMF) imply a second half near 4.5% to 4.7% after a 5.7% first half.
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South Korea's finance ministry, central bank and regulators will monitor markets jointly in real time after the KOSPI fell to a six-month low of 5,554. Officials blame rate expectations, AI-chip doubts and oil, and the measures reported are monitoring and enforcement.
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Healey promises business-cost relief in his first Budget if it can be funded within it
The UK economy grew 0.1% in August, defying forecasts of a slight contraction, the ONS figures show. Chancellor John Healey is promising relief on business costs in a Budget two weeks away, on the condition that it is paid for inside that Budget.
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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is interviewed in Bangkok on Friday, the last Fed speech before a blackout through the Oct. 27-28 meeting. Bank of America says inflation strengthens the case for an October hike. That meeting ends six days before the midterms.
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UK GDP grew 0.1% in August, the Office for National Statistics said. The 0.7% three-month growth owes part of its strength to revisions, with the Chancellor's Budget about two weeks away.
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Larry Elliott sees a cost attached to each of the three supports under global growth
Larry Elliott writes in the Guardian that inventories, AI spending and cheap Chinese exports are holding off a global crisis, each at a cost. The column does not date the reckoning, so planners have to treat timing as unknown while the costs are already visible.
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Mortgage repayments drive the TUC's £13,961 household bills figure
TUC analysis of official figures says UK households have paid an extra £13,961 on bills since 2021, or £2,792 a year. Almost two-thirds of it is mortgage cost, so the figure measures borrowers more closely than it measures households in general.
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Philadelphia chip index heads for a $1 trillion loss after six straight down sessions
Philadelphia Semiconductor Index stocks are on course to lose more than $1 trillion after a roughly 10% six-session fall, Bloomberg reported. We calculate that about 8 of those 10 points came in the last three sessions, while UBS calls the move a recalibration of expectations.
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Earlier coverage
- Georgieva says growth cannot cut US debt of more than $40 trillion fast enough
Leadership · October 14, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- IMF adds $6,100 to Korea's 2026 GDP per capita forecast, a 16.3% revision since April
Invest · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Shorter maturities carry the G7's higher yields into budgets faster, the IMF finds
Invest · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- IMF puts UK growth at 1.3% this year and 1.2% in 2027 as energy prices and rates weigh
Leadership · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers
- Brookfield's $100 billion AI program covers 1.4% of the $7 trillion buildout it estimates
Invest · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Heading for a sixth straight loss, the SOX is still up about 63% on the year
Invest · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- World Bank jobs co-chair wants crisis-era graduate hiring aid made permanent as IMF warns of AI
Invest · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed11 publishers
- IMF says frontier AI widens the bank-failure tail by cheapening intrusion into shared systems
Invest · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Bank of Korea's Shin says the AI boom and the Middle East war push prices up from both sides
Invest · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- IMF lifts its 2026 UK growth forecast to 1.3% as Healey's first budget nears
Leadership · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- IMF raises Korea's 2026 growth forecast 0.7 points for the second time in three months
Invest · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- IMF finds $2.3 billion of tokenized stocks already price the overnight session
Invest · October 11, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- IMF says weaker AI investment and profits could trigger a market correction
Leadership · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- IMF warns the emergency oil stocks that held down Iran war prices are now depleted
Leadership · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- IMF says AI investment boom could lift Asia's growth, with hardware suppliers like Thailand benefiting; JP Morgan sees growth broadening to capex
Invest · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- IMF puts tokenized repo at $300 billion to $350 billion a day
Invest · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Healey faces his first budget with 10-year gilt yields at their highest since 2007
Leadership · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- IMF chief Georgieva presses governments to stop delaying debt cuts before Bangkok talks
Leadership · October 7, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- IMF chief weighs AI's half-point growth lift against record debt and $100 oil
Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers